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Why Tinubu Must Restructure Nigeria

May 29, 2023 1:28 am

It has been shocking to discover that many Nigerians were actually expecting a free and fair election from an unjust system. It is even more perplexing to notice that a vast majority of these same Nigerians are currently holding onto the belief that the results of the just concluded ‘selections’ in Nigeria will be annulled by a court in Nigeria. The truth is that recent events have shown that many Nigerians do not understand Nigeria.

For many years, we have continued to highlight the structural deficiencies of the Nigerian state and why Nigerians should jettison their hopes of fixing the …

The NLC Needs To Reduce The Casualisation Of The Workforce

May 29, 2023 1:17 am

Nigeria, like many other developing countries, has a long history of exploiting workers. Casualisation, or the practice of hiring workers on a temporary or short-term basis without providing them with the same benefits and protections as permanent employees, is a significant problem in Nigeria. This practice is not only unethical but also has negative consequences for workers, their families, and society as a whole.

For many years, this practice has gone on unrestricted and unpunished mostly because the culprits are big firms that are owned by ‘big fishes’. In the corrupt Nigerian business environment where survival is often predicated on …

NLYH Spring Symposium: Empowering African Students To Soar

May 24, 2023 11:53 pm

If there is something common amongst African undergraduate and postgraduate students, it is that they are most times limited by the ideology of their origins and where they come from. Due to a lack of proper exposure, they often fail to maximise their potential.

A good majority of them have bought into the mindset of mediocrity and settling for the little, which is usually neglected or disposed off as crumbs that must have fallen from the table of greater people who had once dared to dream and had pursued those dreams. In some cases, they just settle for the much …

Why African Leaders Should Adopt The Sankara’s Ideology

May 22, 2023 3:31 am

One of the most valid reasons why Africa is where it is today is because it is utterly lacking the kind of visionary, courageous, upstanding, and tenacious leaders that are capable of meeting the increasingly complex challenges the continent has been contending with while also serving as a symbol of inspiration to their people. Most leaders who run the continent today are a bunch of opportunists who merely wanted power by all means, got it, and deployed it for their selfish aims and objectives.

Africa is currently lagging behind globally because she cannot boast of leaders in the mold of …

Europe Must Return All The Stolen Treasures From Africa

May 18, 2023 12:35 am

For centuries, colonial powers from Europe took shameful turns to plunder the African continent, taking away its natural resources, enslaving its people, and looting its cultural heritage. One of the most significant losses of that inhumanity is the theft of African art and artifacts, which were taken away from their places of origin and displayed in museums and private collections across Europe. Today, there is an urgent need to right the wrongs of the past by repatriating these treasures back to Africa.

The scale of cultural theft from Africa is staggering. Over the centuries, countless cultural artifacts were taken away …

Ekeremadu's Ordeals Reality Check For Nigerian Politicians

Ekwremadu’s Ordeals: Reality Check For Nigerian Politicians

May 15, 2023 3:43 am

The recent conviction and subsequent sentencing of Nigeria’s former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, elicited mixed reactions among Nigerians. While some were sympathetic and mild, quite a lot of Nigerians were full of condemnation for the jailed politician. However, regardless of the side of the divide one chooses to belong to, one indisputable truth is that his sentencing left big lessons for the ruling class and members of the elite club in Nigeria.

It is no longer news that a court in the United Kingdom, a fortnight ago, sentenced Senator Ike Ekweremadu, his wife, Beatrice, and doctor, Obinna Obeta …

NYSC@50: How Nigerian Youths Unashamedly Celebrated Failure

May 15, 2023 3:20 am

One of the most painful reasons why Nigeria has remained the way it is that Nigerians tolerate their problems a lot. Rather than raise objective issues with the system which has failed them, they often try to create excuses for failures while basking in their pain and suffering while fuelling its sources. To put it mildly, Nigerians love ‘suffering and smiling’.

Over the last few days, Nigerians showed up on social media to show the world why their governments and leaders do not take them seriously. They were all over the Internet heaping praises and adulation on the National Youth …

Tinubu’s Promise To Fight Corruption: A Joke Taken Too Far

May 11, 2023 12:05 am

Nigeria is an intriguingly bizarre place. It is a country where absurdities have obtained legitimacy and are oftentimes dismissed with flimsy excuses. It is a place where leaders detest accountability and often make blank statements that they don’t intend to remember. Little wonder why politicians in Nigeria make weird promises, before, during, and after elections that they do not even intend to remember.

A few days ago, Nigeria’s ‘President-select’, Bola Ahmed Tinubu gave Nigerians a reason to laugh again after a long season of gloom and pain. His sense of humour was topnotch in Port Harcourt, Rivers State when he …

Why FGN Must Release Kanu Unconditionally Before May 29

May 10, 2023 11:29 pm

It is now barely a few days before President Muhammdau Buhari’s maladministration finally gets to shamefully bow out of office. While Buhari himself now struggles to comprehend the powerful stings of the ephemerality of power and the transient nature of power becomes his daily reality, he could still be reminded one more time that perhaps they are a few actions that he could take to reduce the moral burden he will face post the 29th of May and one of them is ensuring the release of the Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu.

Before President Buhari …

Is Nigeria Not Tired Of Wasting Money On NYSC

Is Nigeria Not Tired Of Wasting Money On The Futile NYSC?

May 8, 2023 3:44 am

Acknowledging failures and making necessary amends is something that everyone who is desirous of making an impact cannot do without, in the case of Nigeria, the story seems different because engagements over the years have clearly shown that rather than correct mistakes, the country reinforces and encourages them. How else can one explain why the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) scheme which failed many decades ago is still sucking up the resources in a country that needs every dint of austerity measures to plug all the financial gaps it has? How else can one explain that very valid calls for …

Unveiling Prof. Nze’s ‘1967-1970: Exposing The Untold Truth’

May 8, 2023 2:31 am

For over 53 years, the Nigerian government has managed to keep the TRUTH hidden from its citizens. it has made bold attempts to conceal the fact that over three million people, including women and babies, died avoidable deaths as a result of the brutal ‘genocide’ that happened between 1967 -1970. Nigerian leaders have ignorantly ignored the fact that the event is one that can never be swept under the carpet and the ‘genocide’ which it has continued to refer to as ‘civil war’ for political reasons will not remain a secret forever!

Thankfully, the author of The Genocide, …

Nigeria Must Get Her Educational System Right

May 4, 2023 3:00 am

There are no right words to describe Nigeria’s educational sector, but abysmally and terribly deteriorated might be a good place to start. Rather than asking what is wrong with Nigeria’s educational sector, the question would be, ‘What isn’t?’

Education in Nigeria is riddled with issues like outdated educational curricula, poor funding, lack of infrastructure, nonexistent libraries, poor access to quality education at all levels, and incessant strikes at the tertiary level. Get rid of incompetent teachers and unqualified teachers, and we might be getting somewhere with identifying the problems.

However, the problems of the educational sector in Nigeria are …